Go sock less they say....
So I read this thread on another board about removing filter socks. A lot of people say the tank looks better, corals colour up, ect so I thought I'd try it. What could be the harm?
So I'm 4 days in, no biggie, everything is fine, no rise in nitrate or phosphate, just trucking along.......until last night!
I'm on the couch in the other room and I hear this horrible noise, that can't be from the tank can it? Oh it sure is! I jump up and by the time I'm at the tank the main return pump is dead, sumps filling, what the....
Turns out, after dismantling my return which by the way is external, not a sump pump, that a hermit crab climbed into my overflows, down the return pipe, through 3 chambers of the sump including a refugium, into the 4 th chamber, up the elbow into the return pump andd tore off every single blade on the impeller! Totally ruined it!
Lucky I purchases a new pump a year ago just in case but of course it didn't fit into the existing plumbing so today was at Rona at 6:30 am buying parts to re plumb!
All because of one wandering crab who by the way is still alive! Lol
End rant, filter sock back on...lol
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